Hey all,

I've been encouraged to write an update on a 1%* project that I've been
working on: separating the HTML formatter and APIs from the Minerva skin.

Right now, I've created a new extension, which contains the code,
associated configuration variables, and unit/integration tests [0] and am
running it alongside a cut down version of the MobileFrontend extension [1]
locally.

My long-term goal is to further separate out the HTML formatter into a
versioned library and to version the API extension so that we can make
smaller, more easily reasoned about changes to smaller, more easily
reasoned about components and update the (relative) titan that is the
MobileFrontend extension more responsibly.

My short-term goals are:

* to *cover* the new extension in integration tests so that I can make
structural changes
* to get the unit tests passing without hitting the DB
* to document the new extension thoroughly
* to reduce the binding between the two extensions to exactly one call [2]
* to get the extension deployed

Cool? Cool!

–Sam

* Not a typo

[0] https://github.com/phuedx/MobileView
[1] https://github.com/phuedx/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend
[2]
https://github.com/phuedx/mediawiki-extensions-MobileFrontend/blob/dd9e99e0f805812914b8d3266dc17239b2968a24/includes/MobileFrontend.body.php#L38